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Revolution in Banking
Frank Rotman
Founding Partner, QED Investors
In the beginning, God
created the heaven and the
Earth…
2
Starting with Church origins, there was a long-held belief that the Earth
must be at the center of the universe
2
Thus, Earth must be at
the center of the universe
(the Geocentric Theory)
3
Some of the smartest people in history justified the Geocentric Theory
by finding evidence that supported their a priori beliefs
2
The distribution of the stars in the sky:
Aristotle
Half the stars are above the horizon, and half
are below the horizon at any given time
4
Mental gymnastics were needed to rationalize observations
5
Copernicus was the first scientist to challenge the a priori notion that the
Earth was at the center of the universe
The Heliocentric
Theory fit observed
data as well as the
Geocentric model, but
was simpler and led
to more accurate
models (e.g., elliptical
orbits) that never would
have emerged from the
Geocentric model
6
1,500 years of belief was torn down and
replaced by a superior world view in a few
decades. It all started with an alternative
to the a priori view that proved to be true.
7
Banking has its own a priori beliefs
8
The Geocentric Model of Banking produced solid economic returns for many
years, but this is no longer true
Banking return on average equity in the U.S.
18%
18%
16%
16%
Return on average equity (%)
14%
14% Shareholder value
destruction
12%
12%
Post-crisis cost of equity
10%
10%
8%
8%
6%
6%
4%
4%
2%
2%
0%
0%
1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016
-2%
-2%
Source: Federal Reserve Economic Data. Return on average equity for all U.S. Banks, percent, quarterly, not seasonally adjusted. Shareholder value shading assumes constant cost of equity. 9
It’s easy to blame all of the Banking
ecosystem’s problems on increased
regulatory scrutiny and capital
requirements, but there is a profound shift
occurring that can’t be ignored
10
That which can be destroyed
by the truth, should be.
– Carl Sagan
11
Armed with more information, consumers increasingly shop…
Cars
20 years ago 10 years ago Today
• Consumers had limited • More pricing data became • New services provide consumers with
information on car price available online, especially in the complete pricing transparency for new
and needed to haggle for used car market (e.g., Blue Book) and used cars
a better price
• Near-perfect price transparency has led
• Dealers had pricing power to a giant reduction in dealer margins
and made healthy margins
4.5%
Gross margin as %
of selling price
4.0%
(excl. F&I)
3.5%
3.0% Compressing
2.5% dealer margins
2.0%
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Source: NADA 12
…and Banking products are no exception
Credit cards
20 years ago 10 years ago Today
• Almost all credit card offers came • Banks began offering products • New aggregation and price comparison
to consumers in the mail or could online, allowing consumers to services enable consumers to shop
be found at Bank branches shop from home bank by bank online
• Consumers struggled to compare • All of a Bank’s credit card • Consumers now have complete information
offers and understand their products could be seen about all available products, pricing and
choices in one place and compared approval odds in a single location
13
Full transparency enables rational decision-making by consumers
Source: Bankrate website. Note: Click rate estimated based on conversations with industry insiders. 14
Thus, the big question every business needs to ask itself:
15
Offering best-in-class products spurs a growth flywheel that yields attractive
economics
2nd-tier value propositions struggle Best-in-class products spur a growth flywheel
Best-in-class product
02 Limited growth
Customer
High ROE and
reinvestment 04 02 acquisitions
and growth
03 Subscale operations
03
04 Low ROE
• Savings accounts • Credit cards • Receivables (cash • Financial risk • Estate settlement • Life insurance
services, lockboxes) management
• Checking accounts • Mortgages • Guardianship • Disability insurance
• Payables (checks, wires) • Investment banking
• Debit cards • Home equity loans • Investment • Employee benefits plans
• Merchant services • Debt capital markets management services (dental, medical, etc.)
• Prepaid cards • Auto loans
• Payroll services • Equity capital markets • Individual retirement • Long-term insurance
• Certificates of deposit • Lines of credit
accounts
• Liquidity sweeps • Institutional brokerage • Property & casualty
• Equipment leasing
• Custody accounts
• Foreign currency • Reinsurance
• Trusts
• ID theft protection
• Tax services
• Securities
• Short-term investments
300+ products across segments • Portfolio management
(consumer, SME, and corporate) products 17
Share will increasingly become
concentrated in the hands of best-in-class
product providers as channel barriers fall
and information becomes more abundant
18
The time is right for Banks to take a “Copernican Leap”
19
In this new world, four types of players will emerge
Manufacturer Distributor
1
YES
TRANSACTIONAL BANKS NO
for core product(s)
2
YES
GENPOP BANKS
to general population
MAYBE
for core product(s)
3
YES
VERTICAL BANKS
to specific segments
4
YES
NON-BANK PLAYERS NO
to existing customers
20
TRANSACTIONAL BANKS
21
AWS is a good analogy for how Transactional Banks that specialize in
specific service layers and core functionality could emerge
22
AWS also serves as a great proof point that well-managed back-end
functionality can generate a giant profit pool
AWS annual revenue (launched 2006)
BEFORE 2010
$20
Owning rackspace /
computing seen as strategic
Annual revenue
(in billions USD)
$15
$10
TODAY
Foolish to own and manage
$5
servers – 1MM+ customers
active each month in 2016
$0
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
AWS reduces the cost of cloud management – on average in 2014, AWS reduced
the cost of computing by 30%, storage by 51% and relational databases by 28%
Source: Amazon company reporting 23
AWS has centralized 1MM+ cost
centers into one giant profit center.
Transactional Banks can do
the same in the Banking world!
24
GENPOP BANKS
25
There are many full-service Banks and Credit Unions today, most of which
are too small to deliver a suite of products profitably
Landscape of U.S. Banking industry Banking return on average
equity in the U.S. in 2017
$10
~200 9.0%
banks
$8 8.5%
Return on average
(in trillions USD)
8.0%
Total assets
equity (%)
$6
7.5%
WFC
7.0%
$4
6.5%
BAC
~500 ~3.3K 6.0%
$2
banks banks ~1.3K
JPM 5.5%
banks
$0 5.0%
>$1TN $5BN - 1TN $1 - 5BN $100MM - <$100MM >$1TN <$100MM
1BN
Asset size Asset size
Source: BankRegData website 26
What if the 5,000+ Banking Institutions
substituted their current offerings
with third-party best-in-class products
and infrastructure?
27
VERTICAL BANKS
28
Relationship management
is not dead…if you go vertical
29
Focus on a single segment allows for the curation of a best-in-class suite of
products and tailored customer experience
30
Vertical Banks will be very disruptive to
the Banking ecosystem. They will
dominate a segment by offering a small
number of world-class products that are
hyper-focused on the segment’s needs.
31
NON-BANK PLAYERS
32
Non-Banks have massive bases of engaged customers…
PayPal
Amazon
Apple
Large banks partner with non- Transactional Banks gain scale Several Transactional Banks
banks, setting themselves up as they serve smaller banks in are powering the Banking
to offer Transactional Banking addition to non-banks ecosystem, capturing half of
services all economics
Banks choose to offer best-in-
class products (own and third Battle for the customer
party) or watch market share intensifies – market share
and profitability erode consolidates to best-in-class
product manufacturers and
distributors
35
The big takeaway:
Transactional banks are coming.
Become one, use one, or watch your
market share and profitability continue to
erode.
36
A 2006 survey revealed that
20% of the U.S. population
still believes that the sun
revolves around the Earth
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Thank you!
Frank Rotman is a founding partner of QED Investors.
His investments are focused on financial services and financial
technology companies that are credit oriented or have data
analytics foundations at their core. His portfolio of 20+ investments
includes many of the emerging next-generation companies
in the financial services eco-system, including Credit Karma, Prosper,
Avant, SoFi, GreenSky, LendUp and AvidXchange. Frank was named
to the 2018 Midas List in recognition of his accomplishments as an
investor over the past decade.